Other News - 06/16/2006

Frontier Airlines said its May yield rose 3% over the year-ago month to 10.31 cents and RASM increased 7.6% to 8.23 cents. Traffic grew 24.2% to 763.7 million RPMs against a 19% rise in capacity to 956.8 million ASMs, sending load factor up 3.3 points to 79.8%.

The US majors will not give up on their campaign against the Gulf carriers, which present the biggest-ever threat to the future of US airlines, the CEO of United Airlines said in a speech in New York Thursday....More

Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) president Tim Canoll said the wider public has to be educated about the threat laser pointers pose to aircraft and help law enforcement catch people shining lasers into cockpits....More

US airlines, particularly regional carriers, have expressed hope that strict pilot training requirements implemented by FAA in 2013 will be eased in FAA reauthorization legislation expected to be taken up by Congress later this year, but there will likely be a strong push back against any efforts to change the rules....More